As a Freshman (2025)

  • Baseball America Preseason Top 25 Freshmen (No. 16)
  • Perfect Game Preseason Top 75 Freshmen (No. 7)
  • Appeared in and started 25 games, batting .270 with 18 runs scored, four doubles, a team-best three triples, one home run and seven RBIs
  • Slugged .416 with a .320 on-base percentage and went 5-for-7 in stolen bases
  • Compiled three multi-hit games and one multi-RBI contests, including a 3-for-3 day with a double and two triples vs. Washington (February 21)
  • Hit safely in 19 of his 25 games played, including each of his final seven on the season
  • Missed 24 consecutive games due to injury, but returned to the lineup and went 3-for-3 with his first career home run at Santa Clara (May 6)
  • Hit .636 with six runs scored, two doubles, two triples and one RBI in a four-game series vs. Washington (February 21-24)
  • Scored six runs and drove in five while posting a double in 11 ACC games
  • First career hit was a triple and came in his collegiate debut at Cal State Fullerton (February 15)
  • Scored three runs while batting 2-for-3 with a double vs. Washington (February 22)

Prior to Stanford 

  • 2024 graduate of Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, Calif.
  • Helped lead his team to a pair of league titles (2021-22)
  • Area Codes Underclass Selection (2022)
  • States Play MLB Develops Westside Team (2022)
  • MLB PDP Pipeline Winter Camps Invite (2022)
  • MLB / USA Baseball All-American High School National Team (2023)
  • MLB / USA Baseball Player Development Pipeline Invite (2023)
  • 2023 Area Codes Games Upperclass participant (Athletics)
  • Perfect Game All-American (2023)
  • Baseball America All-American (2024)
  • Rawlings All-American first team (2024)
  • Baseball America 2024 Top 10 Freshman to Campus
  • Ranked the No. 2 shortstop in California (fourth overall in state) and seventh-best high school shortstop in the nation (No. 24 overall player) according to Perfect Game
  • Played with Alpha Prime Baseball

Personal

  • Son of Celeste and Steven Bates
  • Has one sibling, Parker
  • Grandfather, Jim Bates, played football at Cal
  • Born at Stanford Hospital and grew up wanting to be an athlete at Stanford